Assessing the Degree of Satisfaction of the Wrestlers and Technical Board to the National Training Camp of Iran

Abstract

The main objective of this research was to evaluate the degree of satisfaction among the technical board and the wrestlers of the national team from the Wrestling Camp of Iran, in order to improve the performance of the camp and to increase the satisfaction The sample for this research consisted of the technical board (coaches and managers of Iranian national teams) and national wrestlers of Iran (junior and senior). The measurement instrument for this research included 1) a personal characteristics questionnaire of the technical board and national wrestlers of Iran; 2) a researcher made questionnaire of the participant's satisfaction with the training camp. The reliability was established through a measure of Chronbach's alpha. This internal consistency value was an adequate value of 0.79. The content validity for this questionnaire was assessed from experts and university professors in management and sport management. 114 people took part in the study. In order to examine the hypothesis of the research, deductive statistics with SPSS software were used. Responses were tested through an independent T-test for normal distribution parameters and the Mann-Whitney Test for the parameters with abnormality in the distribution. In order to check the homogeneity of variances we used the Leven Test and for assessing the degree of satisfaction of the technical board and national wrestlers' different aspects of the Binomial Test was executed. The results shows that the technical board for the national wrestling teams of Iran are satisfied with the managerial executives and facilities of the Wrestling Camp, whereas they are not satisfied with the general aspects of the wrestling camp. On the other hand, the wrestlers of the national team are satisfied with the managerial executives and facilities of the wrestling camp, whereas they are not also satisfied with the general aspects of the Wrestling Camp.